Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Rev. C. L. Paddock, of Macedon, N. Y„ has taken judgment for WO against Mrs. William Bennett for afuneral sermon. The new superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, has issued an order declaring that no clemency will be shown cadets guilty of hazing. Samuel Seeley, a bookkeeper in the National Shoe and Leather Bank at New York, disappeared a few days . ago. Investigation disclosed a defalcation of $354,000. The Democratic majority in Kentucky in the Congressional election was 2,173. There were 50,528 less Democratic votes cast than at the Presidential election in 1892. The United States will soon be visited by Ex-President Peixoto, of Brazil. He is in bad health, the result of overwork incident to the revolution in his country, and upon advice of his .physician he will make a tour. Rev. Henry Harrison, editor and chief owner of the Chicago Advance, the Con gregational denominational organ, was killed by a train at LaGrange, a Chicago suburb, Wednesday evening. The accident was due to his own carelessness. Mr. Harrison was widely aud favorably known in Congregational circles. j In an interview at Cincinnati, November 26, Senator Sherman sharply criticised both President Cleveland and ex-President Harrison for their alleged interference with the prerogatives of Cabinet officers. Mr. Shermhn announced himself as opposed ts the renomination of Harrison, and said if he was renominated he would be again defeated. The Senator stated that he would not serve ten days in the cabinet of either Cleveland or Harrison, and concluded the interview by stating that he would not have the presidential nomination himself, if presented on a silver plate.